TORONTO (Interstat) — Ernie Clement homered and drove in three runs, and Spencer Miles pitched into the fifth inning as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Baltimore Orioles 6-4 on Saturday afternoon at Rogers Centre.

Clement’s three-run home run in the third inning erased a one-run deficit and put Toronto ahead for good, knotting the score at 4 before the Blue Jays took the lead later in the same frame. The second baseman finished 2 for 4 with his sixth home run of the season, continuing a recent surge after an 0-for-4 performance against these same Orioles on Friday.

The win evened the season series at three games apiece and snapped Baltimore’s two-game winning streak. Both teams entered the day with identical 31-34 records, and the defeat dropped the Orioles back to three games under .500.

Miles, making his seventh appearance of the season, worked 4 1/3 innings and allowed two runs on two hits while striking out five. He earned his second win against one loss. Louis Varland recorded his 10th save of the season with a scoreless ninth inning, striking out one and allowing no hits.

The Orioles struck first in the second inning when Colton Cowser hit a solo home run, his fifth of the season, to right-center field off Miles. Baltimore added another run in the sixth when Pete Alonso launched a two-run homer, his 13th, to right-center, scoring Gunnar Henderson and cutting Toronto’s lead to 6-4. Alonso finished 1 for 4 with two RBIs.

But the decisive damage came in the bottom of the third inning, when Toronto sent eight batters to the plate and scored four runs. After Vladimir Guerrero Jr. walked and Jesús Sánchez singled, Clement launched a 1-0 pitch over the left-field wall, scoring Guerrero Jr. and Sánchez and tying the game at 4. Brandon Valenzuela followed with a single, and Kazuma Okamoto singled to put runners at first and second. Andrés Giménez then singled to right field, scoring Valenzuela, with Okamoto thrown out trying to advance to third on the play. The inning gave Toronto a 5-4 lead.

The Blue Jays added an insurance run in the fifth inning when Clement tripled and scored on a sacrifice fly by Valenzuela, extending the lead to 6-4.

Baltimore had threatened earlier. In the first inning, Taylor Ward walked, Gunnar Henderson singled and both advanced on a groundout, but Pete Alonso struck out and Coby Mayo struck out to end the inning. The Orioles also put a runner in scoring position in the eighth inning after Henderson singled and moved to second on a groundout, but Alonso grounded out and Mayo struck out to end the threat.

Kyle Bradish took the loss for Baltimore, falling to 3-7 on the season. He allowed five runs on eight hits over 4 1/3 innings, walking two and striking out two. Albert Suárez pitched two scoreless innings of relief for the Orioles, allowing one hit and striking out three. Keegan Akin allowed one run on two hits in two innings of work.

For Toronto, Valenzuela went 3 for 3 with a double and an RBI. He scored once. Okamoto had two hits and an RBI. Sánchez added two hits. The Blue Jays outhit Baltimore 12-6.

Baltimore’s only other run came in the seventh inning when Blaze Alexander, who entered the game as a pinch hitter, hit a solo home run off Toronto reliever Braydon Fisher. It was Alexander’s second homer of the season. Fisher worked a scoreless inning, allowing one hit and striking out two. Tyler Rogers pitched a perfect eighth inning for Toronto, striking out one.

The game, which lasted 2 hours and 38 minutes, was played in front of 41,868 fans at Rogers Centre.

The Orioles had won the series opener Friday 13-3, but the Blue Jays rebounded Saturday to set up a rubber match Sunday. Baltimore had entered the series having taken two of three from the Boston Red Sox earlier in the week, while Toronto lost two of three at Atlanta.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Baltimore 7, Toronto 4. The ELO system gave Toronto a 58.50 percent probability to win. Baltimore had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of minus 1.5. The total score of 10 went under the over/under line of 8.